The Devil's Art: Divination and Discipline in Early Modern Germany

by Jason Philip Coy

In early modern Germany, soothsayers known as wise women and men roamed the countryside. Fixtures of village life, they identified thieves and witches, read palms, and cast horoscopes. German villagers regularly consulted these fortune-tellers and practiced divination in their everyday lives. Jason Phillip Coy brings their enchanted world to life by examining theological discourse alongside archival records of prosecution for popular divination...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813944074
• ISBN13: 9780813944074
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.2"